What started out as a vibration at higher RPM's has turned into a restoration. Well sort of. After messing around with the transmission (read: taking it in and out at least 6 times last summer) now we looked at the motor. The motor is rebuilt, we just have to put it all back together. It is a different 440 bored out and compression right under 10:1 with rebuilt 915 heads.
Well as you can see in the picture, the guy that painted it back in the 80's did a terrible job, paint was flaking off just from over the years and the exterior of the car was filled with solvent pop (i think thats what it is called), then an accident involving a baseball, our garage and a broken window scratched the paint in the back a little bit, and on top of that a guy that was putting on the convertible top a few years back took out big chunks on top of the quarter panel. All the interior is redone, now its just fix the trunk floor and redo body work and paint it the correct QQ1. It was a dark metallic blue from Imron.
Here's the pictures of the progress so far.
By the way, this is his first car and is a 440 4 speed with a dana.
(couple pictures show our "paint booth")
GTX Resto